316 Letters, Extracts, Notices, &^c. 



new feature in Monographs — at any rate carried to this 

 extent — and are full of infoimation. Cotile dilvta, sp. nov.^ 

 is the Central Asiatic form of C. riparia. 



Part XV. (August^ 1892) contains figures of Atticora 

 cinerea, Hirundo tahitica, H.jctvanica, Cotile riipestris, Tachy- 

 cineta thalassinus, and Hirundo arcticincta. 



Parts XVI. and XVII. (December 1893) contain figures of 

 Chelidon tirhica, Cotile riparia, Phedina brazzce, Hirundo 

 rustica (3 plates), H. gntturalis, H. tytleri, H. erythrogastra, 

 H. emini, Progne purpurea, and P. hesperia. 



49. Stejneger on Japanese Birds. 



[Notes on a third Instalment of Japanese Birds in the Science College 

 Museum, Tok3'o, Japan, with Descriptions of new Species. By Leonhard 

 Stejneger. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 615.] 



The examination of a third instalment of birds from the 

 Museum at Tokyo enables Dr. Stejneger to add eight new 

 species to the Japanese Avifauna, besides giving him occa- 

 sions for other interesting notes. (Estrelata longirostris is a 

 new member of this genus, with an abnormally long bill. 

 The author also describes Accipiter pallens as a new species 

 allied to A. nisus, Locustella hondoensis, sp. nov., and 

 Emberiza cioj^sis ijim<2, subsp. nov., and records the occur- 

 rence of two specimens of Pitta nymph a in the province of 

 Inuba. 



XXIV. — Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 



The following letters, addressed to the Editor, have been 

 received : — 



Sir, — In the last number of ' The Ibis ' for last year 

 is a paper entitled '' Bornean Notes,^^ by Dr. R. B. Sharpe. 

 In section ii. of this paper (p. 551) '' Hijloterpe whiteheadi, 

 Poeh Mt., 4000 ft.," is an interesting addition to the avi- 

 fauna of Borneo — if it is correctly named, and is not H. 

 hypoxantha. In section vi,, as regards Arachnorhaphis 

 everetti (p. 561), Dr. Sharpe would seem to lead his readers 

 to believe that he had never seen examples of this species 



